Variationist sociolinguistic research in Australia has grown rapidly and fruitfully in the last decade. Because of Australia’s unique geographic, historical, cultural and social configuration, Australia-based sociolinguists have uncovered a range of unique perspectives that we will share in this panel. These include how language change has taken place in major multi-ethnic urban centres like Sydney, what sociolinguistic patterns are salient in Australian Indigenous communities, and how cross-cultural collaboration and Indigenous leadership has allowed us to expand our variationist toolkit. The panel will also reflect on what the next decade will bring for variationist sociolinguistics down under.